Combination smoking set and advertising device



April 7, H925. 1,532,590

H. C. KITTELSON V COMBINATION SMOKING SET AND ADVERTISING-DEVICE FiledApril 1 1924 Patented Apr. 7, 1925.

UNITED STATES. PATENr OFFICE- HALMER c. xITrELsoN, or mnnnaroms,Mnmnsora, ASSIGNOR 'ro memos o.

. OLSON, or MINNEAPOLIS, mmnnsora.

COMBINATION SMOKING snr AND ADVERTISING nEvIcia Application filed April17", 1924. Serial No. 707,199.,

To all whom it may concem." A

Be it known that I, HALMER C. KI'rrEL- sorr a citizen of theUnited-States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin andStateof Minnesota,"have invented certain' new and useful Improvements inGombination Smoking Sets and Advertising De.- vices; and I do declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art towhich itappertains to make and .use the same.-

My invention relates to improvements in devices intended for use bytobacco smokers, for the purpose of holding cigarettes,

matches, ashes, etc.,' and the principal object is to provide anextremely simple device 7 of this character, combined with a tubularcontainer for advertisingdata, road maps or I otherarticles, rovlsionbeing made whereby the entire evice may be conveniently clamped upon thesteering .post of an automobile, or may rest upon a desk or the like, ifso desired. It will be seen that anyone wishing to place advertisingmatter before the public, may either sell the devices or give them toprospective customers, and with each sale, the desired advertisingmatter will befurnished, compactly held in a position from which it may.be readily removed and inspected from time to time, when needed.

- Thus, an efiective advertising medium is provided, as well as anexceptionally desir able and convenient smoking set.

With the foregoing in view, the invention resides in the novel subjectmatter hereinafter described and claimed, the description beingsupplemented by the accompanying drawing.

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the invention upon the steeringpost of an auto- I mobile.

F ingrset detached from the steering post. igure 3 is a plan view.

Figure 4 is a side elevation. Figure 5 is avertical transverse sectionalview as indicated by line 5,-5 of Fig. 3.

In the preferred, form of construction, selected for illustration in thepresent application, I make use of a horizontally elongated tubularcontainer 1 which ma well be formed from a single sheet of meta with itsedges seamed together as indicated igure 2 is an end elevation of thesmok- I the strip at 2. At one side of the container 1 and secured tothe latter,'is a horizontall elongated channel-shaped holder 3 whic isin most instances, co-extensive in length with said container. In thepreferred form' of construction, the holder 3 is bent from a singlesheetof metal and comprises a bottom 4, a relativelyfnarrow inner sidewall 5, and a comparatively wide, outer side wall 6,

the wall 5 being soldered or otherwise se-- cured as indicated at 7, tothe container 1,

the line of attachment being preferably directly under theseam 2.;

In the present showing, the container 1 is open at both ends, and anadvertising catalogue, a number of road maps or other desired articles,may be inserted into oneend of said container, a catalogue beingindipackageof cigarettes 11,.when held in one end of the holder 3, fromaccidentally falling endwise out of said holder.

Carried by the holder 3, is an ash receptacle 12 which is preferablyformed with arelativelynarrow lowerend 13 frictionally held in said,holder, and with a laterally widened upper end portion 14 which overliesa part of the container 1.. By having the receptacle 12 frictionallyheld in the holder 3, it may be easily removed to discharge ashes andthe-like, and furthermore it may be slid alongsaid holder to engage apackage of cigarettes and hold such package tightly confined between thereceptacle and The end of the holder 3, remote from the strip 9, isadapted to hold a box of matches, as indicated at;- 15, said end havingan upstanding spring tongue 16 co-operable with the wall 6 infrictionally holding the outer casing of the match box, while a'suitableelevated support 17 isf'provided for-the slidable inner part of thematch box, so as to hold the latter in the partly opened position shownin Figs. 1 and 3. The p'artsJ-(i and 17 are preferably bent from asingle strip of sheet metal, soldered or otherwise secured in the holder3.

A horizontally elongated, transversely arched saddle 18, which ispreferably formed of a single piece of sheet metal, extends transverselyunder the intermediate portions of the container 1 and holder 3, andthis saddle is shown as having straight lower edges 19 which may wellrest upon a desk or the like to support the parts. 1 and 3, which aresecured to the crown of the saddle, for instance by soldering, asindicated at 20. The saddle 18 is also adapted when desired, to beclamped against the upper side of an automobile steering post, asindicated in Fig. 1. When this is to be done, an adjustable sheet metalcollar 21 1s passed over the saddle 18 and around the steering post,said collar having an appropriate bolt or the like 22 by means of whichit may be contracted tightly around the st; Preferably, the collar 21 isformed 0 two sections having their ends 23 passed through a slot 24 in aconnecting plate 25. Obviously, the size of the collar may be varied bypassing the ends 23 through the slots 24, to the desired extent, afterwhich said ends are, bent against the innerzi side of *the plate 25, asdetailed in Excellent results may be obtained from the device, whetherit is used upon auto; mobiles or merely rests upon a desk or the like.When used in the last named manner, the container 1 may if desired beutilized to hold a pencils, etc.

Excellent results are obtainable from the details disclosed and they aretherefore preferably followed, but within the scope of the invention asclaimed, numerous changes in form, proportion and minor details, may beresorted to. a

I claim: I

1. An article of manufacture comprising a horizontally elongated tubularcontainer, a horizontally disposed channel-shaped holder at one side ofand secured to said container, and an ash receptacle frictionally heldin a portion of said holder, leaving the remainder thereof unoccupiedfor the reception of other articles, such as a box of matches and apackage of cigarettes.

pipe, cigars, pens and 2. A structure. as specified in claim 1;-.

' said ash receptaclehaving a narrow lower end portion frictionally heldin said channel-shaped holder and being laterally enlarged at its upperend to overlie the adacent portion of said tubular container.

3. An article of manufacture comprising a horizontally elongated tubularcontainer open at both ends, a horizontally disposed channel-shapedholder co-extensive in length with said container and secured againstone side of. the latter, and a strip extending across one end of saidcontainer and the adjacent end of said channel-shaped holderchannel-shaped automobile steering post or to rest on a desk or thelike.

5. An article of manufacture comprising a channel-shaped holder adaptedto retain a package of cigarettes in one end and having a stop at saidend to prevent movement of the cigarette package therefrom, and an ashreceiver frictionally held in said holder and slidablv movable along thelatter to co-operate with said stop in holding the cigarette packageagainst movement longitudinally of said holder.

6. An article of manufacture comprising a horizontally elongated tubularcontainer. a channel-shaped holder at one side of said containercomprising a bottom wall, a narrow inner wall secured to the, container,and'a relativelyhigh outer wall, a strip secured across one end of saidtubular container and extending also across one end of said holder, aspring tongue in the other end of the holder co-operable with saidrelatively high outer wall in holding a box of matches, and an ashreceptacle partly overlying said tubular container and having acontracted lower end frictionally held in said channel-shaped holder.

7. An article of manufacture comprising a horizontally elongated tubularcontainer, a channel-shaped holder at one side of said containercomprising a bottom wall, a narrow inner wall secured to the container,and a relatively high outer wall, a strip secured across one end of saidtubular container and extending also across one end of said holder, aspring tongue in the other end of the holder co-operable with saidrelatively high outer wall in holding a box of matches, an ashreceptacle partly overlying In testimony whereof I have hereunto;

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afiixed my si ALMEB KITTELSON

